Elif Shafak And The Fig Tree
Reviewer: Kaleem Butt In recent times Elif Shafak has become a symbol of a wonderful storyteller, whose writings have the ability to move the hearts of readers. As a reader one could easily judge Elif’s unique style by the way she narrates her story, and as a reader I could say that Shafak is one among many writers who have restored my faith in stories, we need stories to survive, it is from these wonderful stories we get hope to live in this world full of evils. How can we ignore stories when we are made up of stories, but when I started to lose hope in them, authors like John Barth, Gunter Grass, Jose Saremago, Murakami, Orhan Pamuk, J K Rowling and Elif Shafak came in my life and I was driven back to this fantastic world of literature. To be honest with you dear readers, I had nothing against the stories but the way they were told, it seemed that the storytellers had lost the way on this wonderful road of storytelling, and things were starting to fall a